Antique Desk Leg Styles
Upright desks include davenports bureau secretaires roll-top cylinder and Cutler style desks with a slatted roll.
Antique desk leg styles. However ten years later in 1880 they altered the appearance to ensure it appealed to the Aesthetic Movement. They were developed to aid communication between partners in a business and to show equality of status. There are six different basic Chippendale style legs.
Always useful to know the name of the leg instead of sayingyeah i like the piece with the thingamajiggy leg. Most vintage writing desks are table-height making it more challenging to disguise them than roll-top or secretary desks. A cabriole leg is a curved leg that is.
General antique stores label objects 50 years or older as antiques. Walnut Completely restored surface is polished by piano lacquers to the high gloss. Desks delineate personal spaces for their users.
Beyond the popularity of the escritoire other antique writing desk styles became trendy in the 18th century. Even today the style endures. These are the lions paw the ball and claw and the club based on the cabriole shape which is an elegant serpentine style ending in a distinctive foot.
Located in Horomerice CZ. They are the same on each side allowing individuals to face one another. Vintage writing desks come in all shapes styles and colours.
Most antique writing desks tend to be table-height making them more difficult to disguise than antique desks like the roll top or. Antique Painted Desk in Light Colors from France 1930s. This curved S shaped leg was used in armoires bookcases desks sofas and chairs.
